Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsMaking Convention applications
(1) A Convention applicant in relation to a basic application may make a Convention application, or 2 or more such applicants may make a joint Convention application.
(2) If 2 or more basic applications for protection in respect of inventions have been made in one or more Convention countries, one Convention application may be made by a Convention applicant in relation to those basic applications, or by 2 or more such entitled applicants jointly, in respect of the inventions disclosed in the basic applications.
(3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), a Convention application must be made and dealt with in the same way as any other patent application.
(4) A patent request relating to a Convention application must:
(a) include the prescribed particulars relating to the relevant basic application; and
(b) be accompanied by a complete specification.
Meaning of Convention country
(5) Convention country means a foreign country or region of a kind prescribed by the regulations.
(6) Despite subsection 14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003 , regulations made for the purposes of the definition of Convention country in subsection (5) may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, any matter contained in any other instrument or other writing as in force or existing from time to time.